Modernism is an intriguing and fascinating movement that grasped and captivated the essence of the new. It contains a great deal of enthralling characteristics and intriguing traits that are illustrated through the use of magnificent imagery, emotions and descriptions. Each individual characteristic opens the mind of any reader who courageously cast their eyes on these artistically imaginative creations. The reader find their imagination imprisoned by the sheer intensity of the subject matter in which the writers and artists use in order to convey their thoughts and opinions regarding the society in which they found themselves living in. Through their captivating use of the stream of consciousness and fragmentation in their pieces, we are given …show more content…
Their literary and visual techniques give us an important opportunity to be involved in their beliefs, emotions and attitudes, allowing us to feel drawn in beside them, seeing through their eyes and listening through their ears. …show more content…
Throughout this period, the world was viewed as being empty, dark and hopeless. Through the words of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and the abstract and haunting images in Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, we are given a fascinating insight into the pessimistic mindset of their generation through different art and literary forms and expressions. Through each word, sentence, symbol and image that is constructed by these artists, we learn about the overwhelming and pessimistic atmosphere that surrounded civilisation and society around the time of war and violence. T.S. Eliot intrigues his audience by constructing his poem in fragments, and bombards the content with images of decay and destruction ‘London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down’ . Through this intense technique, Eliot effectively forces us to experience the feeling of emptiness that he is attempting to portray. Pessimism is often used in Modernism poetry as a way for the poets to describe the despair that they experience in a society that is strongly progressing scientifically and technically. The fear of the unnatural, which is produced by technology and science, drove modernists to place extreme emphasis on conveying pessimism and an erosion of realism into their